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Lie In Wait
2015
First Published
3.78
Average Rating
390
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From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes another unforgettable thriller set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, featuring Detective Sonja Test Even in a quiet Vermont town, unspeakable acts of the past can destroy the peace of the present In the remote, pastoral hamlet of Canaan, Vermont, a high-profile legal case shatters the town's sense of peace and community. Anger simmers. Fear and prejudice awaken. Old friends turn on each other. Violence threatens. So when a young teenage girl is savagely murdered while babysitting at the house of the lead attorney in the case, Detective Sonja Test believes the girl's murder and the divisive case must be linked. However, as the young detective digs deeper into her first murder case, she discovers sordid acts hidden for decades, and learns that behind the town's idyllic façade of pristine snow lurks a capacity in some for great darkness and the betrayal of innocents. And Sonja Test, a mother of two, will do anything to protect the innocent.

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Author

Eric Rickstad
Eric Rickstad
Author · 10 books

Eric Rickstad is the New York Times and International bestselling author of the new acclaimed page-turner I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM. He also wrote The Canaan Crime Series—LIE IN WAIT, THE SILENT GIRLS, and THE NAMES OF DEAD GIRLS—as well as WHAT REMAINS OF HER. Each is a compulsively readable psychological thriller heralded as dark, disturbing, profound and heartbreaking. His first novel REAP was a New York Times noteworthy novel. Rickstad lives in Vermont.

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